“Football will be a sport where people flourish in a supportive community, where fairness is openly and transparently practised and enforced for the good of all.”
 
Such is the vision of football’s equality and inclusion organisation, Kick It Out.
 
Here at Wigan Athletic, we are Together in the fight against racism and against all forms of discrimination and intolerance.
 
This weekend at our game against Nottingham Forest on Sunday, we will take the time to promote our message of Equality, Diversity and Respect, alongside the great work carried out by Kick It Out.
 
As part of our work in the local community and wider football family, Ashley Houghton caught up with Kick It Out’s Head of Development Troy Townsend following a workshop with the first team players at Euxton on Tuesday afternoon.

Away from the training centre, captain Samy Morsy has also been promoting our inclusion work. The skipper paid a visit to Wigan Youth Zone on Monday evening to take part in a Premier League Kicks session with youngsters from Wigan Mosque. A practicing Muslim himself, Samy was delighted to be invited down to the facility by Wigan Athletic Community Trust where he met, amongst a number of participants, Aihim and Emad Sawesi who also spoke for this episode.

Lisa Nandy MP attended the session at the Youth Zone to show her continued support to the life-enhancing work of the Community Trust.

And last, but not least... Nick Taylor caught up with midfielder Joe Williams to see how the former Everton man has been settling in at Latics...

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What a timely return! Anthony Pilkington came back with a bang on Tuesday night, opening his Latics account just when it was needed with his match-winning goal on his return from injury to seal the 1-0 victory over Birmingham City.

This week, we've got Latics TV duo Guy Clarke and Tommy Gore chewing the fat on the result at the DW Stadium, Anthony Pilkington himself on his triumphant return and looking ahead to Sheffield Wednesday, plus Paul Cook's reaction.

Our team have also been down to the Academy at Christopher Park, catching up with Scotland youth international striker Kyle Joseph and England youth international midfielder Jensen Weir, as well as our principle Academy partner 3P Logistics, with Managing Director and lifelong Latics fan, Ian Walker, telling us exactly why 3P Logistics are showing their support to our stars of the future.

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We're back ahead of a big double-header against Fulham and Birmingham City, chewing the fat with Chey Dunkley, Charlie Mulgrew and David Marshall, three instrumental figures in our 2-0 victory against Charlton Athletic!

David Marshall talks about THAT save to help keep Latics' clean sheet, Charlie Mulgrew tells us about the delivery for Chey's first goal against the Addicks and how he's settled in at Latics, and Dunks is the first to step up for our brand new feature 'Player Playlists', telling us what music gets him ready to take on the world!

Plus, we had a little visit from Owen Evans who updates us on how things are going on loan at Macclesfield Town in Sky Bet League Two!

It's all coming up for you on episode six of Latics Listen!

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Aaaaaand we're back! Apologies for the absence, but we had our own little Latics Listen international break recently, not to worry, we're back in business and packed full of exclusive interviews this week!

First up, Chey Dunkley chats all things Hull City, scoring his first goal in the Sky Bet Championship, Joe Gelhardt's first professional goal and Charlie Mulgrew's expert set pieces.

We've also got the man of the moment 'Joffy' discusses how things have gone since the dust settled on his equaliser against the Tigers, before the latest update from the Academy with U23 coach Nick Chadwick and striker Joe Piggott after Monday's 2-1 win against Charlton Athletic in the Professional Development League.

And finally, we check-in with Nathan Byrne to preview Saturday's visit of Charlton Athletic to the DW Stadium, with the former Addicks loan man discussing his former team mates and what he and Latics have been working on ahead of the weekend.

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After our Academy special last week, we're back in the thick of things with the first team on Latics Listen!

There were two firsts during Saturday's visit to Queens Park Rangers, with Academy graduate Callum Lang making his league debut for the club in the Sky Bet Championship and defender Cedric Kipre on target with his first goal for Latics - so we've been at Euxton to get their thoughts.

Kieffer Moore also sat down with Nick Taylor to talk through his recovery from a minor injury picked up against Middlesbrough, ahead of the visit of his former club Barnsley to the DW Stadium on Saturday.

The striker discusses his start to life at Latics, his switch from Oakwell, his Wales international call-up and the life-changing moment in February when he suffered a head injury during a League One match against Gillingham.

We're also joined by Charlie Mulgrew, who has been out and about in the local community at one of Wigan Athletic Community Trust's Soccer School and Dance Camps.

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It's a change of scenery for this week's podcast, with the Academy our base for episode three!

U23 coach Nick Chadwick and U18 coach Peter Murphy help us to understand their next fixture programme in Category Two of the Academy structure, with both of their respective teams now playing in the Professional Development League.

We also hear from Paul Cook and Nathan Byrne following Tuesday night's visit to Middlesbrough and look ahead to Saturday's game at Queens Park Rangers.

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With three games of the 2019-20 season now under our belt against Cardiff City, Preston North End and Stoke City, Latics gear up to face Leeds United at the DW Stadium... where better to take episode two of Latics Listen than back to Good Friday... need we say any more?

Hero of the day Gavin Massey and left back/left mid/left centre back, Kal Naismith re-live one of our most significant victories of recent times.

We also catch up with summer recruit Jamal Lowe in the first instalment of this season's Getting to Know You.

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The 2019-20 season has started with a bang! A 3-2 victory against Cardiff City on the opening day was followed by a week full of exciting new additions.

On the first episode of the campaign, we chat to Josh Windass ahead of our first away game of the season at Preston North End, catch up with match-winner Lee Evans and hear from new signings, Kieffer Moore, Bright Enobakhare, Tom Pearce and Charlie Mulgrew.

Counting down the top 10 moments at the DW Stadium to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of its opening in 1999, re-living some monumental matches in Latics' history.

Guy Clarke is joined by Emmerson Boyce, Paul Scharner, Nathan Ellington, Paul Jewell and Conor Sammon, as he runs us through the top 10 moments as voted by supporters on wiganathletic.com throughout the summer.

After a successful campaign in the Sky Bet Championship in 2018-19, Latics legend Tommy Gore sits down with Guy Clarke in our Latics Listen studio to reflect on the season that was, focusing on the key moments and the outstanding individuals, including an exclusive chat with captain Samy Morsy from Bank Holiday Monday's End of Season Party in the Park.

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